But that had been before the interminable waste of the Grass War and the long train of young women and men in front of my desk with the trinkets they thought would give them a chance of not becoming food for crows in a field somewhere.

An armonica player is driven manic by appearances of an audience woman he saw die....

A fallen angel gunslinger must defend a dusty town against hellspawn....

A scientist tries to save his brother from a seductress who plants flower bulbs in her lovers’ chests....

A bon-vivant is horrified to join his dinner hosts in swallowing live squid, until his head turns into one....

These and other awe-inspiring fantasy stories await in The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Three, a new anthology of eighteen stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine.

The Best of BCS, Year Three features such authors as Richard Parks, Garth Upshaw, Margaret Ronald, Matthew Kressel, Geoffrey Maloney, and World Fantasy Award-winner Steve Rasnic Tem.

It includes “Walls of Paper, Soft as Skin” by Adam Callaway, named to Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2012, edited by Paula Guran, as well as three stories named to the Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2011 and four given Honorable Mention in Year’s Best Science Fiction 29, edited by Gardner Dozois.

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